Today's News

Duane Marr had the best prediction at this week’s Pace Race.
The Pace Race is a weekly event hosted by the Atomic City Roadrunners. This week’s race was Tuesday on 1- and 3-mile courses in Bayo Canyon and on North Mesa. In all, 25 participants took part.
Marr finished with a prediction error of 15 seconds. He nipped Alexander Romero, who finished with an 18-second error. Ted Romero had a 30-second error.
All but two runners on the 3-mile course finished in under their predicted times.
The fastest runner on the 3-mile course was Daniel Romero, while Emily Pittman finished in 22:41.
On the 1-mile course, Erik Leonard finished in 9:15 and Georgia Pedicini finished in 16:02.

Abiquiu Lake: Fishing was good using top water lures, tube jigs and olive wooly buggers for smallmouth bass up to 15 inches. The wooly buggers were working best in the evening off main lake points. Fishing was fair using crank baits, bottom bouncer minnow and bottom bouncer night crawler combos for walleye Fishing was fair using liver, shrimp and night crawlers at the upper end of the lake for catfish. A few bluegill were taken by anglers using worms. We had no reports on other species. The surface water temp was in the low 70s.
Animas River: As of Monday morning flow near Cedar Hill was 361cfs. Trout fishing was fair using spinners, wooly buggers, hoppers, wooly worms, San Juan worms, night crawlers and salmon eggs.

According to Los Alamos County Clerk Janet Foster, the Los Alamos Governmental Review Initiative (LAGRI) failed to attain the required number of signatures on petitions asking Los Alamos County to rescind six of 21 ordinances for amending the county charter scheduled to come before voters in November.

LAGRI was hoping to prevent ordinances 598; 601; 605; 607; 615; and 618 from being voted on with the rest of the charter amendments.

The required number of signatures is ten percent of the registered voters voting in the last general election, which currently is 885. The deadline for submitting completed petitions was July 20.

Because of possible flooding upstream of West Road, LANL and Los Alamos County have
decided today that, in the best interest of public safety, West Road will be closed
to vehicle traffic beginning Friday, July 20. This road closure is expected to
extend several weeks until the end of the summer monsoon season.
Residents who live in Western Area will have access to Fairway via Diamond Drive.
Access to Pajarito Mountain is unimpeded from Camp May Road off of West Jemez Road
(NM 501).

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A large majority of law enforcement agencies in New Mexico aren't in compliance with a state law intended to combat racial profiling, according to a report released Thursday by civil right groups and an immigrant advocacy organization.

The report said less than a quarter of all agencies surveyed were in compliance with the 2009 law banning biased policing.